Quotes by Locke, John

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own incre >>

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so l >>

Logic is the anatomy of thought. >>

Quotations about Words

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. >>

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their e >>

All words are part true and part false. >>

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Locke, John